Care Plans w/ NANDA-I, NOC, NIC

[bhanson]

I'm sure this has been covered but my searches have not come up with what I'm looking for.

I'd like to see some examples of care plans fully utilizing NANDA International, NOC, and NIC. Most of the care plan books I've seen or examples on the Internet will use a NANDA diagnosis, but only vaguely use NOC and NIC--my textbook included.

My textbook (Kozier) makes reference that each indicator for a NOC should be graded individually, yet in the rest of the book lumps the indicators into one rating. Other diagnosis books may show the NOC and NIC labels, but provide no information about the specific indicators.

Does anyone have any example care plans that fully utilize these nomenclatures?

[MunoRN, RN]

For decent NIC/NOC references, you have to stick to Mosby/Elsevier publications. The reason why is the result of what has to be one of the most amazingly stupid decisions ever made by leaders in any profession. When the U of Iowa faculty developed the NIC/NOC system, they made the brilliant choice to then give away the terminology that describes everything we do, for free, to Moseby publishing in exchange for them publishing it. (They apparently didn't realize that publishing companies don't charge the author to print something, they charge the customers, which they do for NIC/NOC publications). This is why you'll often find NIC/NOC only partially used in many textbooks and also many care planning systems; you can use a certain amount of it without having to pay royalty fees to Moseby. So, to summarize, the most basic descriptions of what Nursing does is no longer owned by Nursing, way to go U of Iowa.

(Actually, NANDA is a bigger embarrassment but that is a different rant).

Anyway, there are a few books out there (by Moseby) that link diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes and go through each pretty thoroughly.

[Nurse Kyles, BSN, RN]

I have Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Ackley, which is a Mosby/Elsevier publication. It does have the NANDA,NOC & NIC.